Trent Richardson

practical web design & development

Archive for the ‘Impromptu’ Category

Sometimes my mind wonders and I just want to play with other technologies. This was one of those times. I’d been wanting to learn a little more about Mootools, especially after reading about their upcoming 1.3 release with a fast, new selector engine. So I figured what better way to learn a new framework than [...]

I thought I would share with you quickly how you can use CSS3 selectors to spice up your Impromptu buttons. Lets say you have a prompt with a Delete button. Delete normally indicates caution/danger/warning which is usually represented by a red color. We can let our CSS do the dirty work and have it find [...]

UberUploadCropper 0.2 With Example

Finally, I’ve put together an example of UberUploadCropper, as well as getting it up to date with Uploadify 2.1. If you don’t remember what UberUploadCropper is, it is a small jquery plugin that brings together Uploadify, Impromptu, and Jcrop, to seamlessly upload and crop images. Here’s a visual: For a brief snippet of code of [...]

Impromptu 3.1 is Here

I finallized the changes from earlier in the week, and jQuery Impromptu 3.1 is now available! As I mentioned then there are three notable changes to Impromptu: Add callbacks to nextState, prevState, and goToState functions. Fix bug when cloning html for use like $(‘#selector’).prompt(); Ability to pass an object as button title and values. Also [...]

Impromptu 3.1 Coming This Week

Impromptu 3.1 is in the works now, and I plan to release it this week. As of now I am just looking to add a few features, so there are no real changes that should break any older versions. As of now I have 3 new changes/additions, one of which is a bug fix. 1) [...]